BACKWARD SWAY by Marie Raffn

Backward Sway | Upper Beam | Forward Swivel | Lower Bound

by Marie Raffn

a talk by composer and writer Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard.
30.10.2019

Marie Raffn’s exhibition Backward Sway | Upper Beam | Forward Swivel | Lower Bound was shown at Theatre Academy Helsinki in the early spring and has now been re-composed as a textual choreographed language. Two dancers read and interpreted Raffn’s exhibition during its opening days, and their movements and interactions within the installation have in turn settled in signage of seemingly dissolved systems.

The page indicates the sheet of a chapbook and/or the floor of a dance studio
And
Or
A compositional score
And
Or
A physical poem
And
Or
A corporeal play
Within a handmade slipcase of light blue Raw Vapour Barrier

Raffn has duplicated signs into ambiguous figures and/or performance notes and through that joined many levels of meaning at their now visibly, open-ended seams. It is a publication of semantic delight where any level of discourse have been prevented from claiming authority and presents us with meaning that moves across the page as the eyes take the lead.